Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Timesman Reston did not dispute Dewey's full cooperation, once the bipartisan plan had been launched. But he refuted Dewey's interpretation of the plan's origins by quoting from Cordell Hull's Memoirs. They pointed out that it was Hull who had first suggested, in March 1944, the formation of a bipartisan group of Senators to discuss the framework of U.N. In August of that year Dewey had criticized the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, after which, said the Memoirs, it was Hull again who took the initiative by inviting Dewey to consultations with the State Department...
...Oliver Franks, Britain's keen, contemplative Ambassador to the U.S., is first of all a professor of moral philosophy, secondly a diplomat. He did such a good job of prodding Western Europe into uniting under the Marshall Plan that Britain allowed him only a short tour as provost of Oxford's Queen's College before drafting him for Washington duty last...
Anna, a big handsome Polish girl who had a habit of getting her own way, thought he was wonderful. Adolf soon proposed. They were married and lived happily in Brooklyn for eleven years. Then Adolf evolved a wonderful plan. He would go back to Poland, sell his family's farm, bring his aged parents to the U.S. and buy a farm himself. Anna agreed...
...separate states can act in two ways. Legislatures can pass permissive legislation allowing cities and towns to expand their school system. Massachusetts granted this permission two years ago. And, second, the states must boost the community college plan with state funds and state facilities. Massachusetts has not gotten around to this yet; the Commonwealth boasts only four such terminal schools--in Holyoke, Newton, Northampton, and Springfield. Cambridge has 110,000 persons and plenty of tax receipts, but it has no community college, an ironical statistic for a city that compasses majestic Harvard and majestic M.I.T...
Finally, members of each individual community should press for the college plan. It is good to have fresh proof that President Conant is leading this campaign in Cambridge as well as in the nation...